[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 8]
[Senate]
[Pages 10483-10484]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        MESSAGES FROM THE HOUSE

  At 10:18 a.m., a message from the House of Representatives, delivered 
by

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Mrs. Cole, one of its reading clerks, announced that the House agrees 
to the resolution (H. Res. 340) returning to the Senate the bill (H.R. 
1735) to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2016 for military 
activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and 
for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe 
military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other 
purposes, and, in the opinion of this House, contravenes the first 
clause of the seventh section of the first article of the Constitution 
of the United States and is an infringement of the privileges of this 
House and that such bill, with the Senate amendment thereto, shall be 
respectfully returned to the Senate with a message communicating this 
resolution.
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  At 1:45 p.m., a message from the House of Representatives, delivered 
by Mrs. Cole, one of its reading clerks, announced that the House has 
passed the following bill, in which it requests the concurrence of the 
Senate:

       H.R. 2042. An act to allow for judicial review of any final 
     rule addressing carbon dioxide emissions from existing fossil 
     fuel-fired electric utility generating units before requiring 
     compliance with such rule, and to allow States to protect 
     households and businesses from significant adverse effects on 
     electricity ratepayers or reliability.

  The message also announced that the House disagrees to the amendment 
of the Senate to the bill (H.R. 1735) to authorize appropriations for 
fiscal year 2016 for military activities of the Department of Defense, 
for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department 
of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal 
year, and for other purposes, and asks for a conference with the Senate 
on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses thereon, and appoints the 
following Members as managers of the conference on the part of the 
House:
  From the Committee on Armed Services: Messrs. Thornberry, Forbes, 
Miller of Florida, Wilson of South Carolina, LoBiondo, Bishop of Utah, 
Turner, Kline, Rogers of Alabama, Shuster, Conaway, Lamborn, Wittman, 
Hunter, Mrs. Hartzler, Messrs. Heck of Nevada, Wenstrup, Ms. Stefanik, 
Mr. Smith of Washington, Ms. Loretta Sanchez of California, Mrs. Davis 
of California, Messrs. Langevin, Larsen of Washington, Cooper, Ms. 
Bordallo, Mr. Courtney, Ms. Tsongas, Messrs. Garamendi, Johnson of 
Georgia, Ms. Speier, Mr. Castro of Texas, and Ms. Duckworth. 
  The message further announced that the House agrees to the amendment 
of the Senate to the amendment of the House to the amendment of the 
Senate to the bill (H.R. 1295) to extend the African Growth and 
Opportunity Act, the Generalized System of Preferences, the 
preferential duty treatment program for Haiti, and for other purposes, 
without amendment.

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